As one of Mexico’s largest foodservice providers, La Cosmopolitana understands it bears larger responsibilities for conducting business sustainably. The firm is a subsidiary of Corporativo Kosmos, the food giant that supplies meals to more than three million people daily.
Serious challenges face the food sector and not just in Mexico. For example, data supplied by the World Bank finds that 33% of the world’s food waste is environmentally unsafe. Such wastes can pollute land and water. It can result in disease and a host of other unwanted outcomes.
That’s why Corporativo Kosmos director Elias Landsmanas has been working with the staff of La Cosmopolitana on an innovative waste disposal system that ensures 100% of all waste is either safely disposed of or recycled. In fact, the goal of La Cosmopolitana is to produce no waste at all. It plans to become a “net-zero waste company” in the coming years.
La Cosmopolitana has instituted what it calls its “Four Rs” program. That stands for reuse, recycle, reduce and recover.
Elias Landsmanas has also directed La Cosmopolitana to work with the Mexican Ministry of the Environment on a transportation program that will reduce the amount of fuel used in company production and transportation.
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